If it weren't for the barred windows and keypad door locks, it would be difficult to tell that anything remarkable was happening on the other side of the building's red brick façade. Pass through the door, however, and the building reveals itself to be a hive of activity: scientists in white lab coats bring beakers in and out of a door marked "DO NOT ENTER," a honeycomb of cubicles house PR and sales reps typing with one hand and answering a phone with other, and a small army of technicians are busy using syringes to fill tiny glass vials with a viscous golden nectar.

This is the home of Organa Labs, the largest producer of cannabis oils on the planet. Every ten seconds someone in the US purchases one of Organa's products, be it a dab, energy drink or gummy bear, but it is Organa's ultra-pure cannabis oil distillates—the golden syrup being put into those vials—that really makes the laboratory tick.